Paul Newman Quotes
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It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
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The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
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In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.
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The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
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People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
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A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
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I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
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I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
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Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
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I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance
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Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.
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It's been a privilege to be here.
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Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
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What we got here is a failure to communicate.
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Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
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People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
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You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.
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If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
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I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.